This is IT: a metamodel of the software process
Jack C. Wileden · ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes · 1986
A systematic study of the software process will require a vocabulary in which various process models, methods and approaches can be described, compared and contrasted. This paper describes a meta-model that might provide such a vocabulary, illustrates how it might be used, and poses some example questions of the kind that such a meta-model should help in answering.